Actually, they do expect the cars to be able to crash up and down curbs w/o
falling aart. In fact, Chevy upgraded the balljoints on the 96 Caprice to
5/8" ball joints from the original 9/16" just because they were failing on
the earlier models. The mfg's also put in the stiff springs, shocks and
anti-roll bars required to make them at least go around a smooth corner. In
fact, for years the hot ticket for street handling from a detroit car was to
order as much of the police package as you could to get the best cooling,
charging and suspension packages w/o going to the trailer package. Sadly,
w/ GM's withdrawal from the rear drive, body on frame police car market,
Ford had it all to themselves and subsequently raised the State Contract
price from aobut $14K to $21K. Boo!
Mike
96 Taxi (Impala SS)
drive a CV at work
----- Original Message -----
From: J C <veloimpreza@yahoo.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: My first ride in a police car!
>
> Row, row, row your car gently down the road! For such
> a porky car I'm surprised it didn't have more body
> roll than it did. I'm sure they do a number of mods to
> their vehicles though. I doubt the stock suspension is
> designed to be able to drive over curbs.
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